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Categories
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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
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Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Articles from big4.com
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Capgemini Swindon Data Center Aims To Be Greenest In The World
Explore big4.com (Sep 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel
Douglas Farquahar, Head of Sustainable Outsourcing at Capgemini U.K has jumped squarely on the green data center bandwagon, and with good cause. A big portion of the company s revenues are generated through IT and when you consider the statistic that the green IT service sector is set to grow at a rate of 60% until 2013, it’s easy to see why companies like Capgemini need to make clear which side of the fence they’re on.
Things are not always what they seem and that applies to information technology. It seems data centers are huge part of the IT wave in the business world, and they contribute greatly to the world’s carbon footprint. As much as 2% of that bit of nasty business can be traced to data processing and storage.
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Europe






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